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uptake

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Definition of uptake

as in absorption

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Recent Examples of uptake Schroeder remains grateful for Kansas City showing up within the last week, and is looking forward to rewarding his staff following the uptake in business. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026 The bloc has some key strengths, such as data center operating costs below the global average, mature manufacturing infrastructure, and rapid uptake of digital AI applications and clean energy. — Brian Wong, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026 These are short, all-out bursts of exercise performed at an intensity higher than your maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂ max). — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Biomagnification, also called bioamplification, refers exclusively to the progressive increase in foodborne contaminants through dietary uptake and assimilation in organisms at successively higher trophic levels. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for uptake

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Why coffee on an empty stomach backfires Pouring coffee into an empty stomach speeds absorption and sharpens the eventual fall.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026
The office market posted its fifth consecutive quarter of positive net absorption, with occupiers adding 6 million square feet in the third quarter of this year, according to a new report from JLL.

— Diana Olick, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of absorption

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Asking viewers to contemplate childhood pain while monitoring digestion requires two kinds of attention that Duffield only intermittently brings together.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
Soluble fiber becomes a gel during the digestion process and slows digestion.

— Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 13 Oct. 2026

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His youthful experiences of flight and cultural assimilation inform a great deal of his work, which centers themes of belonging, identity, and collective memory.

— News Desk, Artforum, 15 Oct. 2026
Columbus, for all his accomplishments in exploration, also had a brutal history of killing, raping, and enslaving natives, and forcing cultural assimilation and Christianity during his conquest of the Americas.

— Mackenzie Chase, The Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of assimilation

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For my body has betrayed that my personal Room 101 must be the mid-exposure realization of having miscalculated a mutual understanding.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
This study challenges conventional understanding in neuroscience.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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